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Bird of Paradise · Beat 119 · permalink

Ocean

56:31–56:51 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:3656:36Frame at 56:4356:43Frame at 56:4856:48

Play from 56:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 164–166. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ocean (beach, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted torso and arms, underwater, no clothing visible visible
  • silhouetted head and shoulders emerging from water, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A person is underwater, arms raised. [frame:1]
  • A fish swims through the water near a dark shape. [frame:2]
  • A person's head emerges from choppy water. [frame:3]
Seen
fish [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: struggle, nature; style notes: high-contrast black and white, underwater and surface shots, use of silhouette and turbulence

A person is shown underwater, then a fish swims past, and finally a person's head emerges from turbulent water. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this sequence.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Bird of Paradise (1932) at 56:36 (passage 56:31–56:51); US record: No renewal found

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